Specifications

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Capturing Footage
To stop capturing:
1. Click the red Record button again, or press the Escape key.
The clip appears in the bin.
2. Click the Stop button in the Deck Control tool to stop the tape.
3. If you haven’t already done so, name the clip by highlighting it in the
bin and typing a new name.
Logging and Batch Capturing
An efficient way to input media into the Media Composer is to log all your
shots first and then use batch capture to capture the material automatically.
Understanding Logging
In the days of handwritten logs, you generally sat down at a tape deck,
watched the footage, and took notes on each shot. You usually logged
everything because the written log served as a key postproduction tool.
Then, during the edit, if you needed to find, say, a shot of the audience
applauding, you could look through the paper logs and locate it, even if
you didn’t capture it.
When you work with electronic logs, it’s likewise a good idea to log every-
thing. Rather than writing notes on paper, however, you log the shots right
in the bin, indicating in a custom column the shots that need to be cap-
tured (and adding comments and notes regarding the shots).
Logging Clips
When you log clips, you record clip data (without associated media)
directly into a bin.
To log to a bin from a source tape:
1. In the Capture tool, set up the capture parameters.
2. Click the Cap/Log Mode button
to switch to Log mode. The Log
Mode icon will appear .
Additionally, the icon previously occupied by the Record button turns
into a Mark IN button
.
3. Play or shuttle to the point where you want to mark an IN for the start
of the clip.
NOTE Yo u’ l l l e ar n ho w
to create custom col-
umns in Chapter 12.
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